Improvement in coat-hangers



N.PETER5, PHDTO-LITHOGRAP'iEi. WASHINGTON, D, C"

UNITED STATES.

PATENT QFFICE.

SIMON SCHEUER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COAT-HANGERS.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,562, dated February 15,1876; application filed January 8, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIMON SCHEUER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Goat-Hanger, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a top view, and Fig. 2 is a side view of my improved coat-hanger.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. a.

The object of icy-invention is to furnish an improved coat-hanger, which, by its greater strength, avoids the annoying tearing out of the common hangers,-and whichmay also be employed for printing the name and address of the manufacturing tailor thereon.

The invention consists of a hanger of leather or similar material, provided with end mountings and wire bent eyes, to be attached to the coat or other article.

In the drawing, A represents anarrow strip or hanger, which is preferably made of leather, but which may also be made of any other material that is capable of resisting the'strain to which it is exposed in equally durable manner.

Refuse scraps of leather may be utilized by being cut into strips of the required width, and then mounted at the ends with sheetmetal clips B, that are riveted or otherwise securely fastened thereto. Wire bent eyes 0 are retained by the clips B and sewed on the As a new article of manufacture, a coat" hanger made of a strip, A, of leather or other material, end clips B, and wire eyes 0, sub

stantially in the manner described and set forth.

SIMON SGHEUER. Witnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, '1. B. MOSHER. 

